Thanks man

 

i cant even rotate my tires.

 

i can only go front to rears and vice versa

 

i havnt rotated my tires since i boubght the car. which is almost to 5,000 miles. and they are really starting to wear. im getting my oil\tires rotated. tomorrow..



im happy =]


but its nice to have the free oil changes from scion where i dont have to do it myself for a while =]

 

ya when my car gtes out the shop sometime this week, i goota take it in for the recall, then ill sit back and wait for my scion gift

 

I don't rotate my tires. Let me explain why. . .

I have a lot of driving experience as well as professional instruction. I've learned to feel the breaking point of the tires for understeer and can reliably take the car to it's (understeer) limit without crossing over.

However, oversteer in a FWD is much more difficult to control and even more difficult to detect and predict. As you all know, when the tC;s rear end breaks loose, it REALLY breaks loose. IMO, oversteer is MUCH more dangerous. . .

When my tires start wearing, I drive different and compensate for it. I have yet to encounter any dangerous amounts of understeering, despite my nearly bald front tires. However, I have practically brand new tires in the rear, yet I HAVE seen some instances of oversteer.

For my driving style, I always keep the best tires in the rear, and the worse ones in the front. So basically I just run my front tires bald, swap the rears to the front, and replace the rear tires with new ones. I don't think that what I do is the BEST thing to do, but the way I drive my car, it's more predictable, IMO.

 

Must not rain that often in Pico Rivera, huh?

 

actually im pretty sure those tires have sign on it that say Outside or side facing inwards...if so then you could rotate like regular ones....and most likely that solid line is gonna be the one facing outward...but i could also be wrong...either way i say rotate when you get an oil change, i also work in a tire shop, and rotating and proper inflation extends the life of your tires dramatically...just my .02 cents

 

Thanks...I'll take a look at them

 

Not really. . . and I am VERY careful in the rain, unlike most LA drivers. I've done this with all of my FWD cars, even when I was in Norcal. It rained quite a bit up there, and I had no problems.

 

But like I said, you really have to know how to feel your limits of traction, as it would otherwise be very dangerous.